Avengers v3 #1 discussion post

[elspethdixon]

Avengers #1 - Once an Avenger...



Writer: Kurt Busiek
Penciler: George Perez

The Avengers return from being temporarily dead something something handwave let's never talk about that last storyline again, guys; we relaunched this title for a reason and discover that random villains all over the world are attacking former Avengers. The only solution is to reassemble!

And drink tea with Jarvis. Lots of tea. And bring Thor some mead and that cold mutton from the refrigerator.

Comments

[sparksliner]

I...just have to say this, but Tony's armor is awful.

Mad respect for Perez here, by the way. That shot of all the Avengers in the living room! I'm frequently impressed with Perez's attention to detail in everything he does. Sometimes his two-page spreads make me think I should start looking for Waldo.

Justice bb, it's okay, you'll have your turn in the big leagues soon enough!

Also: rude, Steve and Tony, talking while Thor's making his speech. Team leaders should set a better example!

[elspethdixon]

Sadly, it represents an improvement over the armor he was wearing immediately before this:






I have no idea what the weird metal bunny ears sticking up from his shoulder were for, and I suspect the artist didn't, either. Also the gold cables look like horrifying Liefeldian muscle fibers.

[captainshellhead]

It looks like some sort of weird Blue Beetle knockoff lol

[sparksliner]

Oh geez, is this another part of the "we don't talk about vol 2" agreement?

[elspethdixon]

Weirdly, the volume 2/Heroes Reborn Iron Man was actually comparatively decent when held up against the incoherent writing and eye-searing Liefeld art of the rest of volume 2 (among other things, volume 2 Captain America is where that infamous "Liefeld Cap with pulsating chest muscles" .gif comes from). It's a much better Alternate Universe version of Iron Man than Ultimate Iron Man was, though that's admittedly not saying much.

But since it all took place in an artificially constructed pocket dimension created by Franklin Richards and none of it was actually real, we still don't talk about it. It's like the really badly drawn 90s version of House of M.